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Amiga statistics anyone? - Insert interesting ones here.
« on: April 10, 2008, 01:36:02 PM »
Would anyone know how many of our beloved machines were ever built around the world? I would be curious to see how many are still alive out there.
 

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« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2008, 02:01:14 PM »
Would be hard to find out sice allot have been throw out or in atics somewhere not being used
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« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2008, 02:05:08 PM »
I wanna know how many unique active Amiga owners there are out there...

Counting forum members seems the only way :(
 

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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2008, 02:06:00 PM »
Why not do a poll?
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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2008, 02:31:19 PM »
I bet for thousands of active users, maybe millions?

That's why we are still alive and ticking, I pressume!
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« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2008, 02:32:57 PM »
It's pretty much impossible to find out how many users still are out there. You'll have to find every Amiga forum worldwide and ask how many people have how much Amigas. There are lots of country-specific forums which have unique users - i.e. users that use only that forum.

Take Germany for example - the Amiga is still relatively huge there but only a limited number of those users visit international forums. And then there's the French, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and other forums which are spread out across the world.

And then there are lots of people who use Amigas and who don't visit Amiga forums, or read those forums but do not participate in them.

I say: for everyone who would reply on such an international survey there's another 1, 2 or maybe even 3 Amiga users that will not respond. Basically, it's like trying to count how many fish are swimming in the Atlantic. You *might* have an idea, but it's still a very, very rough guess.


Therefore, my guess is that there are some 15,000 people in the world who more or less frequently use an Amiga (even for only a game), and have an average of 1,7 Amigas. Then there are still another 34,500 Amigas stored in people's attics/basements/cupboards.

Result: 60,000 Amigas worldwide that are still alive.

And finally: 73% of all statistics are made up on the spot :-)
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« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2008, 02:33:05 PM »
Nice Idea Gwion, but where to post it?
 

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« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2008, 02:36:18 PM »
Dont know :-?  :-?  :-?
Mods?
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« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2008, 02:37:01 PM »
It's better to start a new site especially for that, so every Amiga user around the world can sign for that. Of course, there must be some "advertisement" on all Amiga forums around the world.

Another idea is to be localized. For example, some foreign users don't know very good english, so one man responsible from one foreign forum can translate to their native language and so on.
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« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2008, 04:15:42 PM »
I know 4 in my area..... I´m the only one still active :-D
 

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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2008, 03:51:38 AM »
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It's pretty much impossible to find out how many users still are out there.

Therefore, my guess is that there are some 15,000 people in the world who more or less frequently use an Amiga (even for only a game), and have an average of 1,7 Amigas. Then there are still another 34,500 Amigas stored in people's attics/basements/cupboards.

Result: 60,000 Amigas worldwide that are still alive.

And finally: 73% of all statistics are made up on the spot :-)


Plus theres the minimig which will hopefully find some new, non-original amiga owners. Keep plugging the system!!!

LOL at the stats made up on the spot remark.